Speed over armor. Agility over brute force. The M18 Hellcat wasn’t built to take hits — it was built to never get hit. In 1944, this lightning-fast American tank destroyer took the field and rewrote ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...

American tanks were decisive in turning the tide of World War 2. American armor marched across Africa and Europe, seizing ...

At Arracourt, in the fog of battle, American Hellcat crews ambushed and annihilated German Panthers. At Bastogne, they held the line against Hitler’s desperate Ardennes offensive. Despite light armor ...

It's not uncommon for civilians to see an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) with caterpillar tread and a large cannon and call it a tank. Those are the basic features that make up a main battle tank, ...

The group became the 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion, with Gerling being assigned to Company C. Gerling noted the battalion moved to Fort Hood, Texas, where he trained as a gunner on the M-18 "Hellcat, ...

A single day in combat, 98-year-old World War II veteran Bill Casassa, of Shawnee, told me, “is forever. It goes on and on and on.” There is confusion, mud -- “always mud” -- and behind the battles, ...

Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...

Isometric USA Tank, tank destroyer M18 Hellcat. Self-propelled... Isometric USA Tank, tank destroyer M18 Hellcat. Self-propelled artillery. Armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat, ...

An MT-LB-12 in 2022. In 1944, the Soviet Union’s state defense committee ordered the country’s industry to develop a better anti-tank gun—one that could penetrate the armor of the latest German tanks.

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